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SubjectRe: [patch 0/4] [RFC] Another proportional weight IO controller
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On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 11:01 -0500, Vivek Goyal wrote:

> > Does this still require I use dm, or does it also work on regular block
> > devices? Patch 4/4 isn't quite clear on this.
>
> No. You don't have to use dm. It will simply work on regular devices. We
> shall have to put few lines of code for it to work on devices which don't
> make use of standard __make_request() function and provide their own
> make_request function.
>
> Hence for example, I have put that few lines of code so that it can work
> with dm device. I shall have to do something similar for md too.
>
> Though, I am not very sure why do I need to do IO control on higher level
> devices. Will it be sufficient if we just control only bottom most
> physical block devices?
>
> Anyway, this approach should work at any level.

Nice, although I would think only doing the higher level devices makes
more sense than only doing the leafs.

Is there any reason we cannot merge this with the regular io-scheduler
interface? afaik the only problem with doing group scheduling in the
io-schedulers is the stacked devices issue.

Could we make the io-schedulers aware of this hierarchy?


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